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CJP urges NCM action against hate speech campaign vilifying Bengali Muslims as ‘Infiltrators’

In a detailed complaint, CJP has urged the National Commission for Minorities to act on a wave of hate speech, vigilantism, and communal mobilisation targeting Bengali-origin Muslims wrongly branded as “Bangladeshi infiltrators”

Yati Narsinghanand calls for unity of the world to destroy Islam

At the Hindu Jagruti Sammelan, he made denigrating comments about women and also egged on Hindu men to lure Muslim women, while still having a Hindu wife.

The contentious route, a common factor in inciting violence during religious processions in India

Institutional amnesia chronically ails the state police! Myriad commissions of inquiry including the seminal Justice DP Madon Commission of Inquiry into the Bhiwandi-Mahad-Jalgaon Riots in 1970 have abjured the police from allowing indiscriminate passage to religious processions; the recommendations of these commissions and the law of the land are however not followed by the police controlled as its actions are by the executive

Faridabad: Far right speakers at the Hindu Ekta rally gave anti-minority speeches, used anti-Muslim slurs, made open calls for economic boycott and genocide

The Bajrang Dal-organised event featured speakers Suresh Chavhanke and Jagadguru Paramhansa, no action taken by the police

Kajal Hindusthani, Kapil Mishra, amongst others, target Muslim religious minorities, calls for their “erasure” and “Ghar Wapasi” unchallenged

These hate speeches were made at the “Hindu conclave”, organised by Digital Hindu Bhopal, a convention of Madhya Pradesh (MP)’s supremacist social media influencers held to further Hindutva agenda of establishing Hindu Rashtra

Gujarat: Kajal Hindusthani arrested, sent to judicial custody, booked for delivering anti-Muslim hate speech

Hindusthani has been criss-crossing the country delivering doses of hate from Maharashtra to New Delhi; delivers speech asking Hindus to take up arms in New Delhi even after being first “booked” in Gujarat

Saffron Bigotry threatens Muslim existence in India

Brazen mobilizations by hate driven outfits, unchecked by law enforcement and the state have generated fear in the Muslim community, a fear that has turned inwards into more restrictions for Muslim women

New Year brings little cheer, Chavhanke’s hate diatribe in Maharashtra continues

Speaking at Nashik on March 22, he went on ceaselessly spreading disinformation about both Muslims and Christians

Now Kadi, north Gujarat sees hate speech by Vishwa Hindu Parishad, this time against Christians

A video that has gone viral on social media since Sunday night makes abusive statements against Christian nuns and the Pope, Christians have filed a complaint

Aurangabad badgered with hate speeches, vandalism and destroying of public property followed in protest supporting name change of Aurangabad

Free hand given to hate mongers, as 7 FIRs filed for rioting and damage to public property, but no arrest of T. Raja, Suresh Chavhanke

Himanta Biswa Sarma targets poll bound Karnataka, spreads communally divisive ideology, distorts history, attacks Congress

The new poster-boy of Hindutva’s hate mongering, the Assam CM also says that he envisions the new India to have more Ram Janmabhoomis, more temples, and to be madrassas free

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